Thursday, November 10, 2022

Bigi-Bigis (Pangasinan Terms for Insects and Other Critters)

Piaes/piyaes - cicada

Doron - grasshopper/locust

Kuriat, Kuryat - cricket (Tag. kuliglig)

Sambasamba, Garigari - praying mantis

Ararawan, Dalukdok - mole cricket

Apangat - langaw

Bayangat - bangaw

Andirit - dragonfly

Andirit na duweg - big dragonfly

Andirit dagum - damselfly

Kumpapey - butterfly

Sanggi - 

Talakitik - green planthopper

Omog - thrips

Sepsep - brown planthopper

Lukton - locust

Dangew - a stinking bug

Sibaweng - beetle species

Sisimot - a winged termite species

Ampingilan - wasp

Alimbuyugan, Alimbuyungan? - bee species?

Pandoyokan - endemic bee species 

Asipet - cockroach

Baboy-baboy - antlion  

Tabuney - termite

Kankanti - firefly

Bagsit - hornet

Ants:

Gilata - common reddish-brown ant; general term for ant

Kanit - the brown, smallest ant species with peculiar smell

Asubok - weaver ant, a big species that builds a nest of eggs using leaves up in a tree

Bayatsaw - black, medium-sized ant that moves in 

Ansit - a brown species that is much bigger than the common brown brown gilata

Talakay - the biggest local ant species 



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